Continuous positive airway pressure ventilation for acute ischemic stroke: a randomized feasibility study.

  • Jens Minnerup
  • Martin Andreas Ritter
  • Heike Wersching
  • Andre Kemmling
  • Angelika Okegwo
  • Antje Schmidt
  • Matthias Schilling
  • E Bernd Ringelstein
  • Wolf Rüdiger Schäbitz
  • Peter Young
  • Rainer Dziewas

Abstract

Sleep-related breathing disorders occur frequently after stroke. We assessed the feasibility of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment initiated in the first night after stroke.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0039-2499
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22198979